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To the Editor: The Harvard Medical Practice Study is responsible for the widely cited extrapolation implying that America's doctors "kill 80,000 patients a year,"^1,2 and the study authors have previously asserted that there are, if anything, too few rather than too many malpractice suits filed in the United States.¹ Brennan et al. (Dec. 26 issue)³ report that the severity of the patient's disability, not the presence or absence of negligence, predicted the outcome of the medical-malpractice claims they identified. This is a remarkable finding, considering that each year our tort system generates approximately one suit for every 2.5 obstetricians, neurosurgeons, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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